2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 11,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 18 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

Nexus 7 – First Impressions

I may represent a small portion of the technologically aware population, but I just recently purchased my first touch screen device, a Nexus 7 32GB tablet.

Favorite Park: The Peaks of Otter

Peaks of Otter

The Peaks of Otter are in Bedford County, Virginia. They consist of two mountains and one hill between them with brilliant hiking trails right along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The two mountains form an iconic skyline visible from almost anywhere in Bedford county.

What is the terminal?

This post is about computing and is targeted at users with a lower level technical ability.  Other names used for the terminal are the command line, the DOS prompt, the command prompt, the shell, the blinking cursor on the black screen.

In its essence the terminal is a way of interfacing your computer and its non-graphical capabilities.